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Hopefully this question is not deemed too stupid to answer…

This coming Sunday my wife and I will embark on a 21 hour flight to Africa and I was wondering with today’s super hypersensitivity of the general population of sheep and especially the flying sheep is it considered inappropriate to read such publications as the American Rifleman or Combat Arms on the plane? I know that the mere thought or sight of a picture of a gun can send some people into a panic and I would hate to create feelings of fear and unrest among my traveling companions.

So my question is do I take something good to read or should I stick to something neutral such as Better Homes and Gardens?

We have flown a lot in the last couple of years and JD always takes magazines of interest with him which are usually Guns and Ammo or a new gun parts catalog or something similar.

In fact, I think he wore his 5.11 shirt with four guys on the front of it with shotguns in their hands.

No one noticed or cared.

Airports are one of those places where people go out of their way to avoid paying attention to the guy next to them. They put on their headphones, bury their noses in their own books or laptops and barely notice the person six inches to their left.

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

Reading a Girlie magazine might get you asked to put it away, a gun magazine might get you in a conversation. Be polite and read away! BTW my step son comes back from a month in Ghana monday, he says he is having a great time. Hope you do also!

I would be discrete. Maybe put it inside another magazine. This is a true story that happened to me several years ago:

I am a (private) pilot, and I was travelling commercially from NY to San Francisco, with plans to do some flying out of Napa. I had with me some local aviation charts, which shows the San Francisco area airspace as well, which I was studying while waiting for my flight.

Without warning I was approached by TSA, and scanned, and almost strip searched, becuase they thought I was going to highjack planes.

Even after showing them my Federal FAA Identification, they were still leary. It all worked out ok, but it was not a nice experience.